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| | CHAPTER V. THE HAVASUPAI. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | “The worship of the Havasupai consists of prayers, made during their smokes, or at the hunting shrines, which are merely groups of rude pictographs along nooks or caves in the walls of the canyon. |
 | | “The Havasupai believes that the source of his river is sacred and pure; that polluted by the touch of man it would cease to give forth its waters, and the rocks of the canyon would close forever together. |
 | | This was the canyon of the Havasupai; and down in a grotto, under the falls, lived a great goddess, Ka-mu-iu-dr-ma-gui-iu-e-ba, or ‘Mother of the Waters.’ She was wooed by the rattlesnakes, and bore two sons, Ha-ma-u-giu-iu-e-ba, or ‘Children of the Waters.’ Upon the head of each was a great flint knife. |
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